Wall Street eerily calm as investors sit on their hands

Wall Street ended the calmest session in recent memory with a narrowly mixed performance Monday as investors largely looked past a weak reading on the manufacturing sector and focused on the election.

While trading was quiet, including the often-volatile final hour, the calm doesn't necessarily mean the market has overcome all its worries; analysts said investors weren't making big moves ahead of the voting.

Light, sweet crude fell $3.87 to $63.91 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 5.18, or 0.06 percent, to 9,319.83. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 2.45, or 0.25 percent, to 966.30, while the Nasdaq index rose 5.38, or 0.31 percent, to 1,726.33.